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“Stop using what’s left of our muscle to press against crumbling / walls; use them to hold another body”: Queer Bodies and Illness at the End of the World in Jason Purcell’s SWOLLENING
I’d been thinking about the body even before the devastating news that Roe vs Wade was overturned in the US. I’d been thinking about bodies because I’d been reading Jason Purcell’s debut poetry collection, Swollening. The book is full of … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Canadian, disability, Non Binary, Poetry, Queer
Tagged #CanLit, Arsenal Pulp Press, chronically ill poetry, Jason Purcell, Queer poetry, Swollening
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